Safe or vault door.



S. W. FISH.

SAFE OR VAULT DOOR. APPLIOATION IILIED MAY 13, 1910.

997,781; Patented July 11, 1911.

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UNITE STATES PATENT @FFIQE.

SAMUEL W. FISH, 0F PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO TAYLOR IRON &STEEL COMPANY, OF HIGH BRIDGE, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATIONOF NEW JERSEY.

SAFE OR VAULT DOOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 13, 1910.

Patented July 11, 1911. Serial No. 561,183.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL IV. FISH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safe or VaultDoors, of which the following is a specification.

The present improvement relates to safe or vault doors, the objectthereof being to provide an improved door made up of a pair of membersso united that each may engage the jamb surface, with the inner memberconstituting a means for supporting looking or holding bolts, themembers being united by interlocking lugs. In the present improvementthe door is shown as a solid door comprising a main door portion and abolt supporting or holding portion, these two portions being united byrotating one relatively to the other and secured against separation byinterlocking lugs, my contemporaneously pending application Serial No.57 8,993, filed August 26, 1910 showing another form of the presentimprovement. Reference is also made to my contemporaneously pendingapplication Serial No. 530,943, filed December 2, 1909.

Heretofore it has usually been the practice in those forms of safe andvault doors made up of unmachineable metal and having bolting mechanismfor holding the door in the jamb of the body, to support the bolts by aflange integral with the door. This necessitated either the grinding ofthe unmachineable metal to properly position and locate the bolts, orelse the insertion of soft metal inserts into the bolt openings and thesubsequent machining of the bolt apertures. In order to do away withthismode of procedure and enable the bolts to be carried by a solid doorwithout the necessityof forming the bolt openings in the unmachineablemetal of that door, and at the same time enable the bolts to be solocated that they will efiectively hold the door in position without thenecessity of forming bolt apertures in the jamb proper, is an object ofthe present improvement.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification,Figure 1 1s a rear view of this improved safe .or .vault door; Fig. 2 isa cross-sectional view of. the door anda portion of asafe body,illustrating a sectional view of the jamb; Fig. 8 1s a perspective viewof the bolt holding or supporting member; and Fig. 1 is a rearperspective view of the main portion of the door.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughoutthe figures of the drawings.

The safe or vault body 2 may be of any suitable form or construction, ithaving a tapered jamb 8, and is shown provided in the present instancewith a plurality of annular shoulders or steps 1, 5 and 6. The door 7comprises a main portion of solid formation and of circular taperedform, having shoulders 9 and 10 for engaging the shoulders 4 and 5 ofthe body jamb. The rear portion or half of the door, 11, is of somewhatless diameter than the outer part 12 thereof and is provided with aseries of looking or holding lugs 13.

The bolt holding or supporting means comprises an annular or ring-shapedmember 14: interiorly corresponding to the form of the portion 11 of thedoor, while eX teriorly it corresponds to and fits the inner portion ofthe jamb. This member 14 is provided interiorly thereof with a series oflugs 15 corresponding in number with the number of lugs of the door,whereby, on the rotation of this ring-shaped member or of the door, thetwo parts may be interlocked rigidly together, being held in suchposition by a key or pin 16, which may be inserted through thering-shaped member and into an opening cast or formed in the metal ofthe door. This member 14c is provided eXteriorly with an annularshoulder or step 17 adapted to engage the shoulder or step 6 of thejamb, so that when the door is in- .serted a part of this member 14L isclamped between the shoulder 6 of the jamb and the portion 18.0f thedoor, while the lugs of the member 14: eifectively prevent theseparation of the door from the bolt holding ring. The bolt holding ringis also provided with an inwardly extending flange 19 fitting an annularrecess 20 of the door, so that the parts making up the door are veryeffectively and rigidly secured together against separation by explosivecharges or otherwise.

Carriedby the ring 1 1, on the innermost face thereof, is a bolt holdingflange 21 having bolt openings 22 for the reception of suitable bolts,which bolts may be provided with the usual or suitable operating means,which it is not deemed necessary to show herein. By this means ofsecuring the bolts to the door I am enabled to use a different metalfrom that of which the major portion of the door is made up, to supportthe bolts, and thus enable the use of a suitable steel which can bereadily and quickly machined as compared with that of which the dooritself may be formed, while at the same time the bolts are aseffectively and rigidly secured in position as though theywere supportedby the door proper.

In the present instance the bolts are shown projecting beyond the innerend of the inwardly extending flange 23 constituting the jamb, thusobviating the necessity of forming openings in the jamb for thereception of the ends of the bolts.

In the present improvement it will be observed that the bolt carryingmember is of annular or ring-shaped form and overlaps a portion of theperiphery of the main body portion or member of the door, and so formswith another portion of the periphery of such door the jamb engagingportion of the door.

In practice, the inwardly extending flange which fits the recess of thedoor may be of suflicient area to carry more than one projection orflange, if desired, for receiving the bolts, but in the present instancethe projection or bolt carrying flange is shown of suflicient width toproperly guide the bolts.

I claim as my invention:

1. A safe or vault door comprising a main body member and a ring-shapedbolt carrying member, said members having interlocking means forsecuring them together, and said bolt carrying member having an inwardlyextending flange and the main body member having a recess for thereception of said flange.

2. A safe or vault door comprising a main body member and a ring-shapedbolt carrying member, said members having interlocking means forsecuring them together on the rotation of one of said members, and saidbolt carrying member having a shoulder for engagement with a shoulderformed on the jamb of the body.

3. A safe or vault door comprising a main body member and a ring-shapedbolt carrying member, said members having interlocking lugs for securingthem together on the rotation of one of said members, both of saidmembers having shoulders for engagement with shoulders formed on the jamb of the body.

4. A safe or vault door comprising a main body member and a ring-shapedbolt carrying member, said members having interlocking lugs for securingthem together, both of said members having shoulders for engage mentwith shoulders formed on the jamb of the body, and said bolt carryingmember having an inwardly extending flange and a rearwardly extendingbolt supporting projection and said main body member having a recess forthe reception of said inwardly extending flange.

5. A safe or vault door comprising a main body member, a bolt carryingmember overlapping a portion of the periphery of the main body memberand forming with the remainder of the periphery of said main body membera jamb engaging surface and means for permanently securing the saidparts together.

6. A safe or vault door comprising a main body member, and a boltcarrying member overlapping a portion of the periphery of the main bodymember and forming with the remainder of the periphery of said main bodymember a jamb engaging surface, said members having lugs carried byengaging portions thereof interlocking them together on the rotarymovement of one re atively to the other.

7 A safe or vault door comprising a main body member, a bolt carryingmember overlapping a portion of the periphery of the main body memberand forming with the remainder of the periphery of said main body membera amb engaging surface, and means for permanently interlocking themembers together.

8. A safe or vault door comprising a main body member, and a boltcarrying member overlapping a portion of the periphery of the main bodymember and forming with the remainder of the periphery of said main bodymember a amb engaging surface, said members having interlocking meansand interlocked together by a rotary movement of one member relativelyto the other.

9. A safe or vault door comprising a main body member, a bolt carryingmember overlapping a portion of the periphery of the main body memberand forming with the remainder of the periphery of said main body membera j amb engaging surface, said members being interlocked together, andmeans for securing them against separation after the interlockingthereof.

10. A safe or vault door comprising a main body member, and a boltcarrying member overlapping a portion of the periphery of the main bodymember and forming with the remainder of the periphery of said main bodymember a jamb engaging surface, said members being permanentlyinterlocked together at their overlapping portions by lugs and said boltcarrying member comprising a ring. v

11. A safe or vault door comprising a main body member, and a boltcarrying member overlapping a portion of the periphery of the main bodymember and forming with the remainder of the periphery of said main bodymember a jamb engaging surface, said members being interlocked togetherby lugs carried by engaging portions thereof and said bolt carryingmember comprising a ring having an interiorly extending flange fitting arecess carried by the main body member and a rearwarclly extendingprojection for the reception of bolts.

12. A safe or vault body having a tapered jamb provided With a pluralityof annular shoulders, a solid circular tapered door fitting said jamband comprising a pair of members, one a main body member havingreception of bolts.

SAMUEL W. FISH. Witnesses F. E. Boron, GEORGE PURCELL.

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